Some of the things you do, that you wish you never got involved with relate to family members, I spent the day driving about 270 miles to pick up my sons 1992 corvette that he could not get running, since the last hurricane, Im reasonably sure its a combination of lack of maintenance and a few wiring issues, or blown fuses.
what pisses me off is everyone just expects me to spend my time and money to correct these issues as if It no big deal if it takes me a couple days or costs me a couple hundred dollars, after all IM retired.
I got the corvette back to the house and started checking things out, the battery needed to be replaced, the battery cables are corroded, so those two problem areas will need to be replaced. once those components are replaced I can move on to other testing if it starts and runs.
If you run into a similar problem,
Hook up the MULTI METER and verify you have 12 plus volts at the starter, then, if you do, why not try jumping the starter leads to see if its an ignition or starter issue an checking voltage drop under load as a first test, if the starter spins the engine with the manual switch you know its not the starter itself, if it fails too you know its a starter failure
L98 starter
LT1 starter
what pisses me off is everyone just expects me to spend my time and money to correct these issues as if It no big deal if it takes me a couple days or costs me a couple hundred dollars, after all IM retired.
I got the corvette back to the house and started checking things out, the battery needed to be replaced, the battery cables are corroded, so those two problem areas will need to be replaced. once those components are replaced I can move on to other testing if it starts and runs.
If you run into a similar problem,
Hook up the MULTI METER and verify you have 12 plus volts at the starter, then, if you do, why not try jumping the starter leads to see if its an ignition or starter issue an checking voltage drop under load as a first test, if the starter spins the engine with the manual switch you know its not the starter itself, if it fails too you know its a starter failure
L98 starter
LT1 starter